[R] Retrieving latitude and longitude via Google Maps API

[Michael Denslow]

Hi Benjamin,

>
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Nutter, Benjamin wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have any experience retrieving latitutde and longitude for
>> an address from the Google Maps API?

This thread from r-sig-geo may be of interest:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2010-March/thread.html#7788

Hope this helps,
Michael

>> I'd like to have an R script that submits a street address, city, state,
>> and zip code and returns the coordinates.  So far, I've been submitting
>> the coordinates from another program, then loading the coordinates in R
>> and merging them back into the data frame I want to use.  It'd be nice
>> to be able to do it all in one script, but I'm not comprehending the API
>> thing very well.
>>
>> I'm using R 2.9.1 on Windows XP.  Any suggestions or pointers?
>>
>> Benjamin
>>
>>
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